Don’t give up and let COVID-19 steal your Christmas like some bitter, joy-killing Grinch. Instead of cancelling traditions re-invent them!
Re-create traditions
Revelstoke local, Marie Duchesneau, refuses to cancel secret Santa with her friends. This year, they are dropping off presents at each other’s doorsteps and opening them together over Zoom.
Instead of having Christmas dinner, they are doing a cookie exchange. Everyone bakes one type of cookie each, and you end up with the full variety that you can sneakily brag about to your grandma over FaceTime later.
Christmas community dinner
For the last 26 years, Revelstoke residents have gathered at the Catholic Church Hall to share the best things about Christmas: home cooked food and company.
Revelstoke’s St. Francis of Assisi Church refuses to let people go hungry this holiday, so they are offering pick-up and deliveries of Christmas dinners on Christmas day.
Remember to sign up before Dec. 18 to help Santa’s little elves prepare for the big day. Or perhaps you would like to volunteer cooking, packaging, or dropping of meals?
Christmas lights tour
Looking for a safe family activity? Revelstoke Chamber of Commerce has created a map featuring the best Christmas lights displays around town. I believe there’s a direct correlation between extra spare time, sold out Christmas lights, and extraordinary light exhibits, so get up from that couch and go explore!
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Gingerbread house competition
Why not Pinterest some ideas and make an original gingerbread house? I’m thinking mountains, castles, or perhaps an identical recreation of your own house? Enter a photo of your result to 1st Impressions Hair Salon gingerbread house competition, and perhaps you can sneak a prize or two.
Santa’s workshop
Is your Christmas tree needing some love in the form of homemade ornaments? Or perhaps you want to make a holiday snake, because why not? Pick up a free craft kit from FARTS in the park outside the Revelstoke library Dec. 19.
Community Jingle
On Christmas Eve at 6 p.m. Revelstoke residents are encouraged to come outside onto their doorstep, and ring a bell for two minutes to spread the Christmas spirit and help Santa fly his sleigh to Revelstoke.
This cute idea came from a little village in England earlier this year, and has now gone gone viral and made it all the way to our snow-capped mountains.
“Let’s end 2020 with magic, hope and community togetherness,” Revelstoke event organizer, Alexandra Lexie Ast, writes.
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